Simon&Cade&angst
Title: A Necessary Question
Characters: Simon, Cade
Rating: innocuous
Summary: Cade has a question. Eventually, Cade's going to grow up and figure it out.
Notes: Just a little double drabble, written because I had Simon's last line stuck in my head, and the scene fit so obviously around it. I was also messing with punctuation, as a precursor to another piece I'm writing, in which punctuation is abused.
A Necessary Question
-Why aren't you nice to me?- I ask accusingly.
He stares silently at me. Eyebrows raised. I recognize it: somewhere behind his mask of an expression, there is a dismissal. Again. I wasn't this irrelevant before.
-You were nice,- I persist -Okay, kind of. I mean, a little. I mean, you were less of a jerk before. You know. When we were traveling together. Before you caught me.-
-You know I didn't mean that, right? That's called acting, kid. That's called undercover.- Finally he's talking. -I know what you want to hear. You want me to just tell you what you want to hear?-
I can't answer. No is a lie and Yes is pathetic, like I don't care if he lies to me as long as he's friendly. It's the truth, but I don't want him to know it. -You do it for Martin and Natalia,- I point out. -You tell them what they want to hear. You do it all the time.-
Simon gives me a long look. -Because with them,- he explains finally, -what they want to hear is a lot closer to what I want to say.-
Characters: Simon, Cade
Rating: innocuous
Summary: Cade has a question. Eventually, Cade's going to grow up and figure it out.
Notes: Just a little double drabble, written because I had Simon's last line stuck in my head, and the scene fit so obviously around it. I was also messing with punctuation, as a precursor to another piece I'm writing, in which punctuation is abused.
A Necessary Question
-Why aren't you nice to me?- I ask accusingly.
He stares silently at me. Eyebrows raised. I recognize it: somewhere behind his mask of an expression, there is a dismissal. Again. I wasn't this irrelevant before.
-You were nice,- I persist -Okay, kind of. I mean, a little. I mean, you were less of a jerk before. You know. When we were traveling together. Before you caught me.-
-You know I didn't mean that, right? That's called acting, kid. That's called undercover.- Finally he's talking. -I know what you want to hear. You want me to just tell you what you want to hear?-
I can't answer. No is a lie and Yes is pathetic, like I don't care if he lies to me as long as he's friendly. It's the truth, but I don't want him to know it. -You do it for Martin and Natalia,- I point out. -You tell them what they want to hear. You do it all the time.-
Simon gives me a long look. -Because with them,- he explains finally, -what they want to hear is a lot closer to what I want to say.-